Dr. Thomas Lampoltshammer works as an Assistant Professor and Deputy Head of the Centre for E-Governance at the Department of E-Governance and Administration at the Danube University Krems/Austria. Prior to his current position, he worked as a Researcher and Lecturer in Applied Informatics at the School of Information Technology and Systems Management at the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences Salzburg/Austria. His research interests include - but are not limited to: Geoinformatics, Semantics, Open Data, Data Visualisation, and Software Engineering. His project experience as PI include EU-funded research projects and national grants in the domain of data management, organisational theory, and ICT in public administration. He is co-founder and co-chair of the International Data Science Conference (iDSC) series, as well as member of the ICA Commission on Cognitive Issues in Geographic Information Visualization and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Besides his academic activities within the International Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government (CeDEM), he acts as reviewer for several international conferences as well as for numerous SCI-indexed journals. His current research focus is in the domain of Open Data, the effects of ICT application in a connected society and the effects on a data-driven society.